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ST. GALLEN, KOMPAS.com – A worker has fallen molten aluminum furnace temperature of 720 degrees Celsius in a factory in Switzerland but managed to save himself.
Daily mail reported on Friday (11/11/2022), a 25-year-old electrical technician fell into a furnace filled with boiling liquid aluminum while working at a factory in St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland.
The young man was knee-deep in molten metal, but managed to fight the pain and pull himself out of the furnace.
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On Wednesday evening (9/11/2022) he was working with a colleague in an aluminum furnace.
The man fell into the circular opening at the top of the furnace.
Two doctors and paramedics were immediately rushed to the factory for emergency relief.
He was then taken by helicopter to hospital with severe burns.
The St. Gallen municipal police are investigating the manner of the accident.
A number of serious accidents of factory workers have been reported in recent years.
Earlier this year a packaging company pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety rules after a grandfather ‘saved his hands’ after being involved in a work accident.
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Christopher, who is an engineer working for Riftward Limited in Wrexham in England, was working in a packing plant two years ago when his hand pulled inside the machine.
After retrieving the severed body parts, Christopher Wright, 59, put them in a bag to take with him to the hospital, where he underwent hand resection surgery in an 11-hour operation.
The horror of the accident she suffered was brought to light when her employer was fined £115,000, currently the equivalent of more than Rp 2 billion, for breaching health and safety laws.
Even though his hands were reattached, Christopher had to endure a lifetime of pain and struggle to hold his grandson in his arms.
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That same year, a young woman sustained permanent injuries after her right arm was dragged through a rolling mill in a salt factory.
Courtney Herbert (18) was in excruciating pain after her arm was caught by a car at the Pacific Salt factory in Whyalla, South Australia on April 17, 2020.
The woman was taken to hospital for surgery and suffered tendon damage.
Pacific Salt, which is the manufacturer behind the famous Olsson’s Salt, was taken to South Australian Employment Court after the incident and pleaded guilty to infringing Occupational health and safety law.
He was removing excess salt from the conveyor belt when his shirt snagged and he dragged his arm inside the roller.
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